Matt Farah blasts around Willow Springs in a 2015 Mustang GT

Now this is what a Mustang should sound like.

Over at The Smoking Tire, Matt Farah's been playing with the new 2015 Mustangs. Yesterday, we saw how the 4-cylinder EcoBoost Mustang got around Willow Springs. Today, let's double those pistons, riding shotgun as Matt laps the track in the Coyote 5.0-powered 2015 Mustang GT. As Matt puts it, "this is a Mustang."

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Ford's taking a big gamble with the 2015 Mustang, with IRS and the EcoBoost turbo four sure to piss off some ponycar purists. If it wasn't for the V8-powered GT, the EcoBoost 'Stang might be perfectly acceptable. But compared to Matt's lap in the four-banger, this video looks like it's on fast-forward. It also sounds downright proper.

"If you're familiar with Mustangs, this is a familiar car," Matt says, "but at the same time it feels so much more modern." That's exactly how we felt, too.